[MPlayer-users] about: Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6

[dean gaudet]

On Sun, 28 May 2006, an.ciu at hush.com wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would be very grateful if someone could possibly help me with 
> this error message I get when playing streams with mplayer: 
> "Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6:". Here's an example:

that's assinine ipv6 pollution that's been occuring in nearly every 
program in existance for a while.  i say assinine because almost nobody 
uses ipv6 yet, and the default should still be ipv4.

stick this into your config:

prefer-ipv4 = yes

and rejoice because your mplayer will no longer waste its time trying to 
use ipv6 first and fail.

-dean